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The Big Read, April 20, 2010

Attention students, faculty and staff,

Don't forget to join us on Tuesday, April 20, 2010 at 12:30 p.m. at Chesnutt Library for The Big Read @ Fayetteville State University. The program will be held in the library’s third floor conference room. Light refreshments will be provided at the event.

This year’s book is The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers. The book entails the life of John Singer, a deaf-mute in a Georgia mill town during the 1930s, and on his effect on the people who confide in him. When Singer's mute Greek companion of 10 years goes insane, Singer is left alone and isolated. He takes a room with the Kelly family, where he is visited by the town's misfits, who turn to him for understanding but have no knowledge of his inner life.

Several copies of the book are still available for checkout in the library, as well as, on course reserve. Audio guides and readers guides are also available under “Course Reserve”. Be sure to check one out, you still have time to read this work from a one-time Fayetteville resident before the program.

For more information about The Big Read call 910-672-1233. This Program is Part of the Big Read Project of Cumberland County Public Library, an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts.

FSU Authors Speak During National Library Week, April 11-17, 2010

The theme for National Library Week (April 13 – 17, 2010) is Communities Thrive @ Your Library-FSU Authors Speak. We have a very talented pool of authors here at Fayetteville State University. We invite you to come and share in our community. Come hear our own FSU Authors read and discuss their works and their writing process. Be enlightened, entertained, and most of all informed.

• Ms. Suzetta Perkins 4/13/10 - 11am Author of Déjà Vu, Nothing Stays the Same, Behind the Veil, EX-terminator: Life After Marriage, and A Love So Deep

• Dr. Trela Anderson 4/13/10 - 12:30pm Author of The Cinderella Stories: Lessons I Learned From My Grandmother, A Spiritual Memoir

• Dr. Timothy Ajani 4/14/10 - 11am Author of Streams of Refreshing: Inspirational Poems for Our Time and Rivers of Refreshing

• Dr. Charles Tryon 4/14/10 - 12pm Author of Reinventing Cinema: Movies In the Age of Media Convergence

• Dr. Joseph Osei 4/14/10 -1pm Author of The Challenge of Sustaining Emergent Democracies: Insights for Religious Intellectuals and Leaders of Civil Society

• Dr. Abul Pitre 4/15/10 - 11am Author of Educational Philosophy of Elijah Muhammad: Education for a New World, An Introduction to Elijah Muhammad Studies:The New Educational Paradigm, The Struggle for Black History: Foundations for a Critical Black Pedagogy in Education, Educating African American Students: Foundations, Curriculum, and Experiences, and Co-Author with Dr. Terence Hicks of Educational Lockout of African Americans in Prince Edward County, Virginia (1959-1964): Personal Accounts and Reflections

• Dr. Dean Swinford 4/15/10 - 12:30pm Author of Through the Daemon's Gate: Kepler's Somnium, Medieval Dream Narratives, and the Polysemy of Allegorical Motifs

Dr. Todd Frobish 4/16/10 - 11:00 am Author of Crises In American Oratory: A History Of Rhetorical Inadequacy

• Dr. Maria Orban 4/1610 - 12:00pm Author, with Contributor Dr. Kim Kirkpatrick of Charles Chesnutt Reappraised: Essays on the First Major African American Writer

Light refreshments will be served.

LOCATION:
Charles W. Chesnutt Library
Library Conference Room, Third Floor
FSU/1200 Murchison Road/Fayetteville, NC 28301

CONTACT:
Jan Whitfield, 910-672-1750